Collaborate Disseminate
This October will see the release of a film that’s nearly 43 years in the making, reports Ars Technica:
It’s difficult to underestimate the massive influence that Disney’s 1982 cult science fiction film, TRON, had on both the film industry — t… Continue reading ‘Tron’ Sequel Trailer Released by Disney
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Attackers are probing Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect portals Cybersecurity company GreyNoise is warning about a significant increase of scanning activit… Continue reading Week in review: Probing activity on Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect portals, Patch Tuesday forecast
The F-number of a photographic lens is a measure of its light-gathering ability, and is expressed as its aperture diameter divided by its focal length. Lenses with low F-numbers are …read more Continue reading A Low F Number Lens, From Scratch
U.K. postmasters were mistakenly sent to prison due to a bug in their “Horizon” accounting software — as first reported by Computer Weekly back in 2009. Nearly 16 years later, the same site reports that now the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Comm… Continue reading Were Still More UK Postmasters Also Wrongly Prosecuted Over Accounting Bug?
[Ben Eater]’s breadboard 6502 computer is no stranger to these parts, so it was a bit of a surprise that when [Mark] wrote in asking us if we’d covered [Ben]’s …read more Continue reading Ben Eater vs. Microsoft BASIC
The Starliner spacecraft lost four thrusters while approaching the International Space Station last summer. NASA astronaut, Butch Wilmore took manual control, remembers Ars Technica, “But as Starliner’s thrusters failed, Wilmore lost the ability to mov… Continue reading Starliner’s Space Station Flight Was ‘Wilder’ Than We Thought
If you think of records as platters, you are of a certain age. If you don’t remember records at all, you are even younger. But there was a time when …read more Continue reading Inside an Edison Phonograph
Microsoft has created a real-time AI-generated rendition of Quake II gameplay (playable on the web).
Friday Xbox’s general manager of gaming AI posted the startling link to “an AI-generated gaming experience” at Copilot.Microsoft.com “Move, shoot, ex… Continue reading Microsoft’s New AI-Generated Version of ‘Quake 2’ Now Playable Online
The tech companies are warring for supremacy as they seek to eliminate cell phone dead spots and claim the most satellite airwaves. Continue reading Apple vs. Starlink: The Tech Feud That Could Shape the Next Frontier of Mobile Service
If you’re living your life right, you probably know what as MOSFET is. But do you know the MESFET? They are like the faster, uninsulated, Schottky version of a MOSFET, …read more Continue reading How Shrinking Feature Size Made Modern Wireless Work